Article by
Colville Mounsey

Published on
November 10, 2018

The neglect of St Lucy’s road infrastructure for the last ten years has retarded that rural constituency’s tourism development the Member of Parliament for that area has charged.

On Friday, Minister in the Ministry of Transport and Works and Maintenance Peter Phillips revealed that a number of tourism-based businesses are suffering for lack of proper road access. He further explained that unless something is done it would be difficult to attract more investments of this nature.

Following a tour of several dilapidated roads in the constituency with Minister of Transport and Works and Maintenance Dr William Duguid, Philips revealed that the popular tourist attraction, Animal Flower Cave, is one of the entities losing business because of the poor roads.

“As recently as yesterday the owner of the Animal Flower Cave spoke to me about how he would need some help because business has been significantly dropping as a result of the state of the road out there,” Phillips told Barbados TODAY, noting that restaurateurs in the area have made very similar complaints to him.

The St Lucy MP said because drivers had to approach the stretch of road with such caution, it presented an opportunity for the criminal element in the community to carry out robberies.

“A person can carry out nefarious activities much easier because the roads facilitate it,” said Phillips.

The Minister placed blame at the feet of the DLP who governed the country for the last ten years. Prior to Phillips former DLP candidate, Denis Kellman, represented the constituency for successive terms since 1994.

Duguid said while Government expects to begin fixing the most critically damaged roads, residents should not expect the problems created by ten years of neglect to be undone overnight. He also told reporters that he expects the process to be quite costly although he refrained from speculating about the eventual bill to taxpayers.

“For the last ten years very little to nothing at all was done to maintain this country’s road infrastructure. So over the next few years we will be spending $100 million to fix not just the major roads but minor as well. People need to be confident that they can get to work and school in a good and timely manner and this redounds to the economic benefit of the whole country,” Duguid said.

24 thoughts on “Bad roads crippling tourism in St Lucy”

Now how do y’all expect the Barbados tourism officials to say in a couple more weeks from now that :

“THIS IS GOING TO BE A BUMPER TOURIST SEASON ” if y’all don’t fix the potholes in the road for the tourists?

Buhbados don’t care a damn about the St.Lucy bajans , once the “tourists ” have nice roads to drive on that is all they care about.

This is the result of Barbados having no natural resources which means that the Island has to depend on the a** kissing tourist industry.

The tourists have already shifted from Barbados and they are now going to Cuba , St.Lucia , Jamaica , Grenada and all of the other Caribbean Islands. Even the flying fish are running away from Buhbados.

so wunna betta fix de damn roads before de a** kissing tourist industry dry up in buhbados.

Peter stop worry what Denis kellman do he is out . It is ur turn to show what u going do for st Lucy n make de people of st Lucy happy . Kellman do what he had to do n gone .we st Lucy people looking forward to see what u going to do to make we happy

….and the BLP has 5 years to start with. Roads in St.LUCY are in a HORRIBLE STATE ..passed through some the other day on my way to JOSEY HILL and could NOT BELIEVE MY EYES that KELLMAN after those last 10 years and 90 days COULD NOT HAVE DONE SOMETHING about them.
Corey Babb..Kellman was YOUR representative and a member of the GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME and the roads didn’t reach that state in 6 months so don’t release your anger at PHILIPS…he now get there.
Furthermore do you and others who had voted DLP all these years expect now to come and get things done BEFORE those who had voted BLP ALL THEIR LIFE.
ALL YA time gine come…but ya got to wait ya TURN.

Took a trip over to the Anima Flower Cave with some of my friends this Summer who I came in with from up-North. Vow never to visit the area again unless the roads are fixed. It’s not only part of the journey that bad , it’s the complete stretch of road way. Anyone who go to the cave will know it’s a long drive in.

It was a very stupid move to waste money repaving already good roads that could have made to do with some decent patchwork. The tourists love driving around exploring the nooks and crannies of the island . Lose the roads , lose the interest of tourists to explore .

HI to the Youngster craftsman who do a little business at the top leading into the cave.
Such a COOOL guy. Hope you go and cash in on some of the 5 thousand dollars per person loan the government giving out to small businessmen.

It is time that these politicians and their supporters stop blaming everything that they consider wrong on the DLP of the last 10 years, Barbados’ problems did not start 10 years ago, they started with Mr. Arthur.

What is this ???
A Minister in the Ministry of Transport and Works and Maintenance one Peter Phillips complaining about roads when he is the Minister of Transport and Works
Peter get on with the Road repairs you is the Minister or are you a Clown

Two fat cat ministers in one Ministry to do a job that Gline Clarke used to do by himself, but yet he did not get to be a Minister again. Duguid is in over his head. Promises promises promises will be made. The usual BLP thing is to fix one or two roads today and the remainder around elections time, even when Owen was in power.

Look if the DLP had fixed the roads, Peter Phillips won’t have a job at MTW. The Dems didn’t build or repair roads before or after elections. Patching potholes was the order of the last 10 years. Incompetence is a b*tch!

your right OSSIE.M about the roads needs to be fix. it’s a tourist attraction and the roads should be in good shape come on now they should know that what the hell. OSSIE .Moore i give you that one. but this one is mine now you see those tourist destination u mention there a lot CHEAPER THAN BIM and that’s one of the reason why we are losing some of the tourist to those destination . do u know how many people tell muh that they would love to go to BIM and the answer i get every time is BIM is two expensive . i would say to them may be your right but BARBADOS is much safer place to go . the wifey told muh to night her friends @ work wants to go to BIM for vacation but they told her the same thing it’s two damn expensive so there going to Cuba our lost

Minister in the Ministry of Transport and Works and Maintenance Peter Phillips campaigning for thee next General Election very early, Peter Pan elections is four years away, set back yuh clock

One Fat Cat working for a Big Salary now and ain’t know what to do or say, Peter you Just there to out number Georgie and the Gang of five, keep cool draw yuh big Salary and shut up if yuh ain’t got nutten Positive to say now you in Government, you are not the Opposition any more